Football Referee
CurrentAt the age of 17 I trained and gained qualifications as a FA referee, and since then I have refereed at matches for children aged 6-years-old and above, right through to adult and university football. The qualification included safeguarding training and I’m DBS checked for this role.The job can be challenging; often managing situations where people are passionate about their football, emotions run high, and I need to maintain control of the situation in a calm manner. It’s much publicised how football referees are often subjected to verbal abuse from players, managers and spectators, which I myself have experienced, however difficult this may be, it has served to build by resilience, patience and helped me to develop invaluable communication and people skills. It’s an ambition of mine to gain further qualifications to progress up the refereeing ranks.
